Ucross Alumni News: Spring/Summer 2023

MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS Charles Cantrell (99): selected poetry in Tipton Poetry Journal , One Art , The Cafe Review , Stand , and Streetlight Magazine Melody Cooper (22): story, “The Sky’s the Limit,” DC comics anthology Milestones in History , 2023 Ricky Ian Gordon (02,04,05,07,12,16): essay, “The Sand Hill Cranes,” Wonderlust , 2023 Alena Graedon (10,22): short stories, “No Changing,” The Paris Review ; “Threesome,” Southern Indiana Review , 2023

AWARDS

Jane Marchant (21): excerpt from her memoir, “An Extraordinarily Condensed Encyclopedia of Botany,” ZYZZYVA , 125 th issue Kailyn McCord (19): short story “The Tail,” The Master’s Review , 2023 Chris McCormick (17): short story “Giraffe,” The Southern Review , Winter 2023

Catherine Arnold’s (92) poetry collection, Receipt for Lost Words , won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Cathy Linh Che (23) received a Manhattan Arts Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for nonfiction.

Jessica Mehta (21): short story “I Thought You Were Praying,” Whiskey Tit , October 2023; “How to Play a Woman,” Comstock Review , August

Kristina Marie Darling (14) was awarded the Fulbright Specialist Grant to teach in Togo.

Cathy Linh Che

2023; “Hands,” Comstock Review , August 2023; “Like Love in Fall,” The Poetry Box , September 2023; “God, Mother,” Broad River Review , September 2023 Nancy Ring (13): poem “These Almost Lost Pieces,” Grey Sparrow Journal [2023:41]; poem “A Moving Story,” About Place Journal , Summer 2023

Kerry Dolan’s (00) short story collection Safe Places was recently awarded an Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award, the Juniper Prize for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Rebecca Donner (17,21) was named the 2023-2024 Radcliffe Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Eve Fairbanks’s ( 13) first book, The Inheritors , which she began writing at Ucross, won PEN America’s 2023 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Debra Gwartney’s (13) essay, “Siri Tells a Joke,” The Sun , included in Best American Essays edited by Vivian Gornick , 2023

Kelle Groom (12): essay “Emerald City,” Hunger Mountain , 2023; essay “Tideland,” New

England Review , Vol 44.1, 2023; essay, “My Shipwreck,” Provincetown Arts Review , 2023 Jennifer Haigh (05,09,18): short story “Shelter in Place,” Ploughshares , Spring 2023

Claudia Savage (07): essay “Given Earth, Given Water,”

River Teeth , 2023; poem “Slip of Light,” Nimrod, 2023 Kirsten Stolle (10,20): collage, The Grass Isn’t Always Greener, “Monday Gallery,” Harper’s Magazine , 2023

Elizabeth Kadetsky (98,03): cover essay, “The Goddess Complex,” The American Scholar , 2023

J.C. Todd (16): poems, “The Parents” and “The Disasters of War,” In Full Bleed: A Journal of Arts and Literature , Issue 6, 2023

Rebecca Makkai (14): short story “The Plaza,” The New Yorker , 2023

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SPRING/SUMMER 2023

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